NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, formed in 1949 when the 12 founding nations signed the Washington Treaty. Central to the treaty is Article 5, a pact among member nations to provide ...

David Brennan is Newsweek's Diplomatic Correspondent covering world politics and conflicts ... With the accession of Sweden and Finland, NATO has added two members with mandatory military service.

Perhaps more surprisingly, the Nato member with the second-largest military is Turkey, with 447,000 personnel. France is next on the list with 207,100, Germany has 188,500, Italy 174,800 and the ...

NATO members gained another ally in March when Sweden ... and to encourage European political integration." NATO spawned after World War II, the deadliest international conflict in history.

NATO member countries and allies, including the United States, have provided Ukraine with more than $175 billion worth of military, financial and humanitarian aid since Russia’s invasion.

At their meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, the defence ministers of the 32 NATO member states laid the groundwork for the ...

NATO Secretary ... a grim picture of the world and called on Europe and Canada to ramp up their defense spending Thursday. Rutte made the comments during an address to member countries at a ...

The Kosovo intervention in 1999, evangelised as a human rights security operation against genocidal Serbian forces, put the world on notice where alliance members might be going. NATO was again ...